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What I Consider To Be True Art · 11:32pm Mar 27th, 2020
There are people who wonder what makes something "art". What makes something beautiful and what makes something pretentious.
To me, for something to be true art, it must be something....timeless. It must resonate across generations. It must speak to our very souls.
True art is a reflection of our hopes, our dreams, our fears, our tears, our anger, and our flaws.
A book I consider to be true art is Animal Farm by George Orwell. While Orwell was mainly taking swipes at the Stalinist regime, the book is a timeless warning how political change can be fragile, how the oppressed can become as cruel as the oppressors, and how power corrupt.
Whether it is Mona Lisa or the early Simpsons, true art must be reflection of the world around us.
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redandready45 · 135 views
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For me, art has to have meaning or effort put behind it and not something that's literally slapped together.
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That's why the mods disliked my Monty Python fanfic: I basically glued MLP characters to a Monty Python skit.
In retrospect, I realized they were kind of right: I wasn't doing anything original.